MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	141% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7916
Motherboard	MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916) (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 03:42
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 684 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 671 42% 671 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 111 Parallax 105 82% 106 fps	MRender 95.8 Gravity 92.5 Splatting 97.3 78% 95.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 181GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10412 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 363 (B1) Unknown 98 98 39 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 178 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14966173342	114% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 418 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 46.2 174% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 122 144% 253 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10413 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 363 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 89 89 345 (AE) Unknown 99 99 32 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 995 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 18 44 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 88464 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29274 (F2) Unknown 99 99 8635	141% Outstanding	Read 770 Write 669 Mixed 733 162% 724 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 47.6 176% 62.1 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 169 174% 285 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 220%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 142GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18723 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 636 (B1) Unknown 93 93 130 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 191 (F1) Unknown 99 99 54528332556	115% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 417 Mixed 424 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 88.7 4K Mixed 47.3 176% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 112 141% 253 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 690GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6690 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8300 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 12454 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 34884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3487 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 50 336461844 (C2) HDA temperature 79 50 4664983573 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1864550 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 12 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.4% Above average	Read 86.1 Write 89.6 Mixed 97 69% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.33 78% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-2400 CL10 8GB 4x8GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	57.1% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.1 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 19.6 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 89%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97A GAMING 7 (MS-7916)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	252x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	67x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	29x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $150Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	17x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	15x

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